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Tag Name "Restraint" (287)

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Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
Lewis H. Lapham
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke
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Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.
Rufus Choate
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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.
James Forrestal
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The first and most important thing is to remain free, free in each line you undertake, in your ideas and in your political action, in your moral conduct. The artist especially must remain free from all outer restraints.
Hans Hartung
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Where would anyone in publicity be if they allowed sensitivity, restraint, breeding or good taste to stand in their way?
Isabelle Holland
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But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.
B. F. Skinner
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Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.
Benjamin Rush
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Restraint is the better part of beauty.
Frances Gray Patton
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What is the freedom a man can enjoy? Man is governed by certain restraints. He has to adhere to truth.
Sathya Sai Baba
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...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and poverty of their lot.
Russell Kirk
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Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.
Marya Mannes
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Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.
Edmund Burke
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I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.
Mary MacLane
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Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand Better that they were not touched at all.
Ovid
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Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Albert Camus
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The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.
Zach Wamp
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Most Americans, who think Congress has a right to do anything for which they can get a majority vote, ignore the clearly written constitutional restraints on Congress.
Walter E. Williams
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No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy and hatred, and hence there cannot be a society which does not have to employ coercive restraint.
Leo Strauss
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Democracy requires you to learn how to lose as well as how to exercise power when you win. And that requires restraint all around. One of the reasons it works is because when you win you don't do things that are so upsetting to the losers that they feel like they have less, they have more to gain by turning over the system.
David Frum
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I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.
Billy Casper
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Getting a lecture on restraint from the woman who threw a hissy fit and blew up Babylon.
Ilona Andrews
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